Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
In 2014 and 2017, I accompanied the filmmakers Philipp Hartmann, Danilo Carvalho, and Helena Wittmann to the Sertão in the northeast of Brazil. In this desert-like region we gathered the material for Virar mar (2020), an experimental documentary…
This article deals with the production process of the film PRISM. Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels based filmmaker Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris based filmmaker Eléonore Yaméogo from Burkina Faso to collaborate. Our s…
This article aims to reflect on the challenges of participatory film projects. The text analyses the method applied in the making of the short film Ghetto PSA. The main character is Jacob, a young man who arrived alone in Italy from French Guine…
Pondering on the power of cultural preconceptions, this article examines the tension between self-representation and ‘representation from the outside’. Using the indigenous filmmaking practices of the Arhuaco community from Colombia as a case st…
I share in this paper experiences and insights from my fieldwork in a local ethnic artist’s and media producer’s network in South-Mexico. As an attempt at transcultural collaboration, I took part in a nude photoshoot for a local photographer, as…
We examine the meaning of shared video work and shared writing in its epistemic dimension. Our reflections are based on our own experiences of working on the video Acteal. Ten years of impunity. How many more? produced by the communications depa…
In this article, we will explore a relationship between Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy and Sophia Pinheiro through image and filmmaking. A videography of a poetic encounter between two women, one indigenous and other non-indigenous, using visual a…
This special issue follows Walter Mignolo´s call for epistemic disobedience and combines it with MacDougall´s work on transcultural cinema. The films and texts of this special issue support our hypothesis that more equally balanced modes of comm…
Collaborative ethnographic filmmaking has been celebrated as a practice that ethically challenges the traditional relationship between the observing researcher and the observed Other. At the same time, the collaborative mode raises the question …
We examine the meaning of shared video work and shared writing in its epistemic dimension. Our reflections are based on our own experiences of working on the video Acteal. Ten years of impunity. How many more? produced by the communications depa…
IJAPS is pleased to make two important announcements: First, our website has been updated with a new banner and logo design that better reflects who we are and what our journal is about. Second, today we officially launch a new section titled Perspectives, which aims to capture significant views and voices about Asia Pacific in the … Continue reading
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This article examines an emerging academic discourse of new online record production. It represents amateur musicians and producers – with access to new digital production and communication tools – as entrepreneurial, aspiring professionals. The articl…
Vaccine hesitancy refers to the delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccination despite vaccine availability. At its very core lies the problem of trust. Yet, there is very little research on the role of trust in vaccine hesitancy, particularly…
What is hospitality? Who is it addressed to? Hospitality aims at welcoming those who arrive; it demands giving space and time and sharing our own resources with others. In view of the current global migration crisis and in the midst of the social debat…
This article explores the ‘lack of meaning’ in contemporary society as a consequence of Western dualist thought paradigms and ontologies, via Gilles Deleuze’s concept of ‘reactive nihilism’ following the colloquial murder of God. The article then explo…
Church asylum, a practice aimed at assisting migrants with precarious residence statuses, has been enacted in Finland particularly since the 2010s. As a result of migrants’ insecure residency, their capacities of action are often restricted. They…
This article approaches issues arising out of being in the middle of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland in March 2020, both from the point of view of the lived experience of caring for people in our conference setting, and through analy…
Book review of Kupari, Helena, and Elina Vuola (eds.), 2020. Orthodox Christianity and Gender. Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice.Routledge Studies in Religion (London & New York: Routledge). Open access publication: https://doi…
Review of Anne Dufourmantelle’s In Praise of Risk, trans. with an introduction by Steven Miller (New York: Fordham University Press, 2019).
This text offers some reflections that stem from my participation in the NSU Winter Symposium ‘Feminism and Hospitality: Religious and critical perspectives in dialogue with a secular age’, held in Turku, Finland, 5–7 March 2020. Drawing from my previo…
This article is a reflection on the NSU Winter Symposium of March 2020, entitled ‘Feminism and Hospitality: Religious and Critical Perspectives in dialogue with a Secular Age’. It contends with moral judgments which regard charity as an act of alienati…
This article engages with the question of who our neighbour is, linked to the imperative of love thy neighbour, with the aim of a broadened understanding of who should be seen as a neighbour on an ontological level. First, drawing on posthumanistic the…
This is an exploration of women’s tradition of hospitality, the epistemic and moral contribution of their practices of welcoming the other and their historical experience as providers of care. The essay claims that female hospitality has largely consis…
Provincializing Electricity by Émile St-Pierre (Osaka University) emil.stpierre@gmail.com October 23, 2020 . In the beginning, there was the steam machine. Or so starts one of the ways the Anthropocene story has been told. Much like the biblical Genesi…
The aim of this article is straightforward: to present two clarifications of Hannah- Arendt’s seasoned political concept of natality and to conclude by positioning this new account of natality within the context of the climate crisis. In many ways, thi…